2-Social-Studies-January

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Grade: 2nd

Month: January

Main Concept

Needs & Wants:
Challenge of meeting needs and wants

Guiding Questions

  • What's the difference between needs and wants?
  • What are the basic needs one needs to survive? (food, water, shelter, clothing)
  • What's the difference between goods and services?
  • Who provides goods and services to the community?
  • What's the difference between producing and consuming?
  • How are people both producers and consumers?
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Theme/Content Skills

  • Communities provide facilities and services to help meet the needs and wants of the people who live there.
  • People in rural, urban, and suburban communities are producers and consumers of goods and services.

Key Terms


needs, wants, goods, services, producer, consumer, barter, income, transportation, factory

Holidays

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  • New Year's Day

Student Outcomes

  • Students will recognize that all people have the same basic needs.
  • Students will recognize that people cannot always have everything they want.
  • Students will identify people that provide goods and services in a community.
  • Students will identify ways in which people are both producers and consumers.
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Assessment/Project

  • "Product Promotion" Students create an advertisement poster for their favorite product.
  • Brainstorm different stores (department store, grocery store, bakery, bookstore etc). Students choose one store and make a collage of goods/services found in this store. Use magazine pictures, drawings. Compile the stores to make a community goods and services book.
  • Students invent a product.

Resources for Students


Harcourt Brace Activity Book p.10, 65, 66


Resources for Teachers


Graphic Organizers:
-outdoor jobs vs. indoor jobs
-goods vs. services
-producer vs. consumer

www.harcourtschool.com/tours: a virtual tour of a factory

Field Trip Suggestions

-Visit a factory
-Farmer's Market
-Supermarket
-Bodega/Corner Deli